“Look, Auntie!” Lily held up the drawing, waving it excitedly. It was the same figure as always, but this time, it was surrounded by what she deemed "sparkles." She looked, made a noise of acknowledgment, then turned back to the crossword puzzle. The words, the challenge of fitting them together, held her attention.

Lily prattled on about Sparkle's favorite color, his favorite food. Each word, each sentence washed over her. She knew she should respond, but the puzzle demanded her focus. The crossword was a sanctuary.

“He said he likes you, too!” Lily declared. She glanced up, a quick, fleeting look. “That’s nice.” She went back to her puzzle. The clues, the spaces. The tangible reality of the crossword eclipsed everything else.

Emotion: indifferent

Cluster: Passivity
PC1 (Valence): 0.68 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion indifferent. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 indifferent stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the indifferent emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the indifferent vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455